
          Recd [Received] March ... 1842 Clark Co. Ala. Feb. 7. 1842


 Dear Sir


 I have sent a box of plants directed to
 you containing also packages for Drs. Barrett & Sartwell &
 Rev. M. A. Curtis to whom you will please forward them
 or let them know of their arrival in N. York. Having 
 spent the last summer in the same place as the
 preceding one I have obtained little that I have 
 not previously sent you. That labelled as a new 
 species of Laurus is Hopepea tinctoria. I have forwarded
 two boxes for myself to Carey & Co. I wish either you
 or they to keep them for me till I return to N.Y.
 sometime during this year. About the middle of 
 last month I visited Dr. Carpenter [William Marbury Carpenter] of La. Did not 
 obtain as many plants from him as I expected
 He is about to publish a catalouge [catalogue] of the plants
 of La. Saw Dr. Riddell at New Orleans and exchanged 
 plants with him.


 I am now engaged in getting large fossil bones. 
 I have obtained part of a head of Owens Zygodon
 & about 60 feet in length of another skeleton so that
 I now have a large portion of two animals. I do 
 not know as yet what I shall do with them. I have
 some idea of exhibiting [crossed out: them] provided I obtain 
 a few more [added: bones] to make the skeleton more perfect. If
 not I shall forward them to N. York and go
 to collecting plants in N. Carolina & Tennessee. I have 
 not received Grays notice of his Tour last summer
 through the Mts of Car. nor the Flora. I did not care
 so much about the Flora but being about to
 visit the Mts of N. Carolina I am very anxious to

        